Mary Zophres
# Mary Zophres

Mary Zophres is an American costume designer who has worked in the film industry since 1994. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design four times for True Grit (2010), La La Land (2016), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Babylon (2022). She has also been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design five times for Catch Me If You Can (2002), True Grit, La La Land, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Babylon.

## Background

Zophres was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has Greek roots, with her father having been born in Ioannina. She attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and she graduated with degrees in art history and studio art. Zophres worked in the fashion industry for Norma Kamali and Esprit.

She was hired as the extras wardrobe supervisor for Oliver Stone's 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July, working under costume designer Judy Ruskin. She subsequently worked as associate costume designer for Ruskin for three more films, including the 1991 film City Slickers. Zophres moved to Los Angeles and worked for designer Richard Hornung on three films, including the 1994 film The Hudsucker Proxy by the Coen brothers. When Hornung was too sick to work on the Coens' 1996 film Fargo, Zophres took over. She subsequently had a creative partnership with the Coen brothers on all of their subsequent films and has also worked on a variety of other films.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Director |
| - | - | - |
| 1994 | PCU | Hart Bochner |
| 1994 | Dumb and Dumber | Peter Farrelly |
| 1995 | Bushwhacked | Greg Beeman |
| 1996 | Fargo | Joel Coen |
| 1996 | Kingpin | Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly |
| 1996 | The Last of the High Kings | David Keating |
| 1997 | Digging to China | Timothy Hutton |
| 1997 | Playing God | Andy Wilson |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen |
| 1998 | God Said Ha! | Julia Sweeney |
| 1998 | Paulie | John Roberts |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly |
| 1998 | Where's Marlowe? | Daniel Pyne |
| 1999 | Thick as Thieves | Scott Sanders |
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel Coen |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen |
| 2001 | Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff |
| 2001 | Moonlight Mile | Brad Silberling |
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Steven Spielberg |
| 2002 | View from the Top | Bruno Barreto |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Joel Coen |
| 2004 | The Ladykillers | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2004 | The Terminal | Steven Spielberg |
| 2005 | Bewitched | Nora Ephron |
| 2006 | Smokin' Aces | Joe Carnahan |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Robert Redford |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Steven Spielberg |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Jon Favreau |
| 2010 | True Grit | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens | Jon Favreau |
| 2012 | People Like Us | Alex Kurtzman |
| 2013 | Gangster Squad | Ruben Fleischer |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris |
| 2018 | First Man | Damien Chazelle |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| 2020 | Antebellum | Gerard Bush Christopher Renz |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen |
| 2022 | Babylon | Damien Chazelle |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Nominated work | Award | Category | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Catch Me If You Can | British Academy Film Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2011 | True Grit | Academy Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2011 | True Grit | British Academy Film Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2017 | La La Land | Academy Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2019 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Academy Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2022 | Babylon | Academy Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
| 2022 | Babylon | British Academy Film Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated |
